Secret Language

by Molly Barker

Secret Language is about the indestructible spirit that compels people to search out meaning and to give it a shape, even when their lives seem reduced to a tedious or desperate struggle for survival.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087286328X
• ISBN13: 9780872863286
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

haunting and lyrical

Poe and Gorey fans should take a look at this. Molly Barker's work is lighter and less ornate than Poe's prose, and less comic and more contemplative and fluid than Gorey's work. The loose and evocative line of her etchings and the tensed flow of her prose create a most atmospheric and poetic narrative. Barker's work has been released in only 2 ways: (1) in limited-edition fine art books of bound prints, for the art collector's market, and (2) through City Lights, a small press in California, for the general reader. Her work has had less attention than it deserves due to its limited distribution.

A brilliant graphic novel, part Spiegleman, part Gorey

Ms. Barker's landscapes are eerie and dark, reminiscent of Poe. They describe the alienation of the human condition with poetry and beautiful illustrations